Myspace and facebook: Identifying dimensions of uses and gratifications for friend networking sites

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-33

  Bonds Raacke, Jennifer ^a   Raacke, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE   (United States)

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